VSeWSS BIN Deployment and CAS Policy Issues
There is a bug in Visual Studio Extensions for WSS (including VSeWSS 1.3) – if you are targeting your web part deployment into BIN instead of GAC, you are in for an upleasant surprise, when you realize...
View ArticleFix for a Recurring Meeting Workspace Error
A great time saving post on MS SharePoint Designer Team blog: How to fix: Recurring Meeting Workspace error: ‘g_InstanceID’ is undefined I ran into this problem after applying a custom master page to a...
View ArticleDeleting GTP and EFI Partitions on Windows 7/Server 2008/Vista
If you are trying to delete GTP or EFI partition on your hard drive under Windows Server 2008/7/Vista using management console are you out of luck. However, here is the easiest way to get around it:...
View ArticleThe Most Useful Undocumented SharePoint 2007/2010 Shortcuts
Here are a few of the most useful SharePoint shortcuts, which work in all versions of SharePoint 2007 and 2010 (even 2003). Enter page web part maintenance mode Append ?contents=1 to the URL of the...
View ArticleSharePoint 2010 White Papers
I put together a collection of white papers and diagrams from Microsoft site, which are related to SharePoint 2010 deployment and configuration. Some of them are extremely useful when it comes to...
View ArticleHow to Create Minimal Web Pages in SharePoint
This brief article talks about how to create minimalistic pages in SharePoint without deploying any server-side code, and with minimum effort by using only SharePoint Designer. By minimal web pages,...
View ArticleMBA Admission Lessons
I hardly ever write about my personal life, but this time I feel like sharing one of my recent experiences. Last week I got accepted into the MBA program at Rotman School of Management (University of...
View ArticleMoving Browser Cache Folder in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari
Having recently replaced OS partition hard-drives with solid-state drives on my desktop and two laptops, I decided to tweak a few settings on my Windows in order to reduce the number of unnecessary...
View ArticleMoving SharePoint 2010 Log and Index Locations
There are two hard-drive locations on a SharePoint server (with enabled search indexing) that are in constant use and often require significant space – log files and index files folders. Log files...
View ArticleVMware Performance Enhancing Tweaks (Over-the-Counter Solutions)
I have been using VMware virtualization for quite a few years now, and even though it is generally fast and reliable platform, it does require some extra tuning to improve its performance. Here is a...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Freeware Tools
It has been more a year of a long online silence since I wrote the last blog post. Pursuing MBA degree while working full-time in consulting turned out to be a lot more challenging and time-consuming...
View ArticleBackup, Restore, Migration in SharePoint 2013
SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 Migration Migration process of SharePoint 2010 sites to 2013 is relatively straightforward, but requires some preliminary work done in SharePoint 2010 environment:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2013 Navigation and Mobile Devices
SharePoint 2010 and 2013 navigation unfortunately has never been designed as mobile- or touch-friendly. Top menu’s “mouse hover” effect provides serious interaction challenges when your submenus also...
View ArticleC/C++ Calling Convention
There has been a number of changes in the past couple of years in the calling conventions of C/C++ code. The processors become a lot more powerful and provide a larger number of available registers,...
View ArticleSQL Client Configuration
There is a great deal of MSDN articles dedicated to describing network communication protocols and how to configure client network configuration for SQL server (Client Network Configuration, Choosing a...
View ArticleR and Power BI Working Together
Microsoft recently introduced R integration capabilities in its Power BI offering stack (still in beta preview at the time of writing), and it is quite impressive. In order to get started with R and...
View ArticleMBA Admission Lessons
I hardly ever write about my personal life, but this time I feel like sharing one of my recent experiences. Last week I got accepted into the MBA program at Rotman School of Management (University of...
View ArticleMoving Browser Cache Folder in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari
Having recently replaced OS partition hard-drives with solid-state drives on my desktop and two laptops, I decided to tweak a few settings on my Windows in order to reduce the number of unnecessary...
View ArticleMoving SharePoint 2010 Log and Index Locations
There are two hard-drive locations on a SharePoint server (with enabled search indexing) that are in constant use and often require significant space – log files and index files folders. Log files...
View ArticleVMware Performance Enhancing Tweaks (Over-the-Counter Solutions)
I have been using VMware virtualization for quite a few years now, and even though it is generally fast and reliable virtualization platform, it does require some extra tuning to improve its...
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